I t’s hard to imagine a more influential book than the Bible. When its ancient Old Testament and not-quite-as-ancient New Testament are taken into account, the Bible has been a part of the human ...

Newark Advocate faith columnist Mark Katrick discusses his love for meteorology and how it translates to the storms God helps ...

The Old Testament considers children an evidence of God’s blessing: “And God blessed them, and God said to them: ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have ...

Old Testament criticism of the kind just mentioned is by no means a facile matter, however. It demands long hours of study involving original languages, obscure religions, ...

Another Old Testament event that prefigures the sacrament of reconciliation is in Genesis 4. Adam’s oldest son, Cain, kills his younger brother, Abel. God, like he did with Adam, ...

Fox has revealed the roll-out for its anticipated Biblical event series The Faithful, from Carol Mendelsohn. The series will ...

Imagine walking through life without the Holy Spirit. No inner guide. No advocate. No quiet voice in your spirit convicting ...

In previous columns, I have shown how certain truths of the faith in the New Testament were prefigured and foreshadowed in the Old Testament. Here, I will focus on the Eucharist. There are a ...

We would never flip a coin on such important things. And yet, in the Bible, people did just that. You actually see them ...

What Christians call the Old Testament and Jews call the Torah is a very old collection of texts. Its final formulation in writing dates back to between 450 and 250 BCE, but its origins in oral ...

Often we only hear Scripture a few verses at a time. Would you like a better grasp on how all those pieces of the Old Testament fit together? In this course we explore a narrative arc through the Old ...

OLD TESTAMENT & ART: In Konstantin Flavitsky’s vivid 1855 painting, we witness the moment Joseph’s brothers sell him into slavery — a scene from Genesis 37 that not only reveals family ...